His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.


On the Death of Crashaw; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epilogue iii, line 303.

Abraham Cowley Quotes

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.